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Completely disconnected from our bodies, our minds float in a sea of abstraction, and our spirits ebb and flow at random.

We react instead of act.

When our spirits are high we are integrated: our mind, body, and spirit are one. We feel life exquisitely.

Our minds and bodies contain the memories of everything that we have ever experienced. That includes our own actions and those of others, either well-intentioned or misguided, the circumstances that shape our lives, or any number of life events such as births, deaths, sorrows, even joys.

The death of a favorite pet. A humiliation in class. The loss of the feeling of safety. The harsh words of a friend.

Sometimes our experiences are too much for us. Parts of our spirit leaves. Our minds disconnect from our bodies. We fragment, for our own survival and protection.

Within our bodies lies the unprocessed memories of a thousand pains.

We really can't move on until we reintegrate.

How do we do that?

Some people try psychotherapy, some people drown themselves in work, and others become addicted to one thing or another.

Especially now, there are a million distractions to keep us numb.

The integrative health practices, such as yoga, tai chi, martial arts, silent sports, as well as the healing traditions like shiatsu and herbalism, all point to the crux of health – the integration of mind and body and spirit.

My personal practice has involved meditation for 24 years in order to quiet my mind, and now shamanic journeying in order to reintegrate my mind with my body, and calling back those parts of my spirit that have wandered far away.

Shamanic journeying combines all that I have been practicing for over two decades – meditation, music, exploration, and story.

We start the week with the best intentions. Its the Mike Tyson quote played out, week after week. Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face. The problem might be though, we're misquoting him. It's "...until I punch them in the face." You have to remember that 18 year old boy who brought all his rage, at how life had mistreated him up until then, into the ring against full grown, older men who never saw that shit storm of fury coming until it was too late. We all take shots to the face, all the time and we keep moving. Fighters discover that they're fighters when then they get punched in the face and learn that they can take a punch. Iron Mike wasn't talking about the day to day beat down. He was talking about the wrath of a very angry god. Its like that AA thing about rock bottom. Rock bottom isn't a bad day or a rough week. Its looking up from a place with no more down. Its that Dorothy Parker place where jumping out the window for a 20 story swan dive into a taxi waiting on a fare, beats the next 20 seconds breathing oxygen in the life you're living. That's rock bottom. That's the very moment Jocho means. When you know you are going to lose, retaliate. You can do anything you want because you've seen what's coming next and any possible outcome is less dead than that. Its deciding to quit choosing to quit. It is, for me, looking at the long chain of things I've fucked and ruined, not as a map to how this ends but as proof that I'm still alive. #100miles#Ultradistance#Running#Trailrunning#Ultrarunning#Pagan#Magick#Heathen#OperationWerewolf#Workout#Training#Fitness#MilitantStrengthCulture#Sports#Tallahassee#Instarunner#Nature#History#Hagakure#BookOfFiveRings#TheBookOfFiveRings#DorothyParker#IronMike#MikeTyson#RockBottom#DontFearTheReeper

13 0 17 February, 2019

Sweatshirt «Nornir»
«No one Will escape the norn sentence»
Our next design We dedicate to, in our opinion, one of the most unchartered and chthonic image - Master of fate - Norns.
Most of them are those, who were mentioned in "Younger Edda" as guards of one of the roots of world tree Yggdrasil - Urd, Verdandi and Skuld, but own norn comes to each person, when he was born and endow him a fate.
Origin of word "Norns" is linked to meaning "rotate" or "twist". Image of norn much older than their name.
For european culture this Image is universal, three goddesses, who asking for fate, can be met in mythilogy of Ancient Rome (Parki), Ancient Greece (Moiras) , Ancient Russia (Mokosh, Dolya, Nedolya). In skandinavian culture there are no "segregation of duties", each of them handles fate itself.
But Norns only create the fate, but unable to manipulate it.
Norns were not created by Odin, Willie and Wio at that moment, when first Aces create world.
Mechanism of fate, which handles by Norns, extand to all - mortals and Gods. Even Odin many times visit Norns, asking for advice. #sonnenwende#sweatshirt#heathen#pagan#barbarian#nord#scandinavian#mythology#folklore#tradition#edda#nornir#urd#sculd#verdandi#viking#walhalla#sonnenwende_store

We stand ready for a new year of shows. We stand together, shoulder to shoulder and shield with shield.
Warriors, thegns and kings.
To Anglo-saxons, your community was key. You worked as a unit, fought as a family and followed your leader into any situation. We try to recreate this in every event we do. @herigeas_hundas
Photo by Ross Underwood